I'll Have a Beer 

Went out drinking with some coworkers last night. We went to a local Mexican place, La Fuente, which has really good food, and pretty good margaritas. I'm actually not much of a margarita man myself, so I stuck to beer all night. I haven't been to La Fuente in a while... but I still should have known better. First I ordered a Leine's Red. I know its a Mexican place, but this is also Milwaukee. I thought they might have it. After repeating myself twice because the bartender didn't hear... I finally just said... I'll have a Miller Genuine Draft.

I went to the table with my compatriots and we started laughing about something... who remembers these things? Beer number one was done, and a waitress came by taking more orders. She didn't speak much English... so we all had to order twice. I handed her my empty, and said I'll have another Genuine Draft.

She came back a few minutes later with fresh margaritas, a Miller Lite for another guy there who had been ordered one, a Miller High Life for me, and then walked away. One of the women there just looked at me and said "Weren't you drinking MGD?" "I was... apparently not any more. That's ok - this is the Champagne of Bottled Beers after all." Luckily I'm actually not that picky about beer. I do have my preferences, but it's not like I ever turn down a beer if it's not my brand. Besides, I wasn't buying.

A while later with beer number two nearly gone, the waitress came back. I simply held up my mostly done bottle and said "I'll have another beer." Someone looked and said "Aren't you going to tell her what kind?" I simply looked back at him and said "Do you think my telling her will make a difference in what she brings back?" Amazingly, probably more by coincidence than anything else, she brought back another High Life. Of course more happened... but that's for another blog post... or maybe not.

Rule #1 when going to a Mexican place in Milwaukee... don't order any kind of out of the ordinary beer. Hell, don't order any beer and expect it to be what you actually asked for... unless it's a Corona. Like I said, I should have known better.